Description In This Side of Water , Maureen Pilkington\'s bright debut collection, precise and vivid language delivers flawed characters to their moments of reckoning.
A married woman goes to the cemetery to resurrect her father; a young girl at a beach club witnesses her parents\' infidelity; an icy New Year\'s Eve leads a devoted husband to violent clarity; a teenager spies on her mother and a Catholic priest; a Russian "dancer" visits her American husband and plays a danger.
Description In This Side of Water , Maureen Pilkington\'s bright debut collection, precise and vivid language delivers flawed characters to their moments of reckoning